Posted on 12/27/2021 4:18:15 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
When asked to name the president who has done the best job over the past 40 years, a majority of Democrats name Barack Obama. Republicans, by contrast, are divided between a president who served in the 1980s – Ronald Reagan – and the one who left office this year, Donald Trump.
(Excerpt) Read more at google.com ...
Wait? No Bill Clinton? No Obama? Oh, well.
Leaving a certain family to wonder if they should’ve gone into dry goods instead of national politics.
Well, yeah.
What about the neocon globalist Bushes?
Trump superior to Reagan by a mile. Trump didn’t suck up to illegals and give them amnesty like Reagan did.
Trump and Reagan and complete opposites
They are very different, but each was suited to his time, and I think one would have to dig back pretty far to get somebody to top either one of these two.
In temporal order, the other four that are worth considering for third, in my opinion, since Hoover, would be Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, and Nixon. Which of these four is better than either Reagan or Trump?
That is a no-brainer. I put Trump over Reagan except for the vaxx and wanting to split Israel, which I believe cost him the election. God wasn’t pleased with that.
Trump and Reagan are not in the same league. Look around, all of Trump’s executive orders were overturned by April fools day. Other than fixing the VA nothing stands but that Ryan/McConnell/CoC tax legislation. Reagan changed and probably saved the world.
Trump could learn from Reagan’s mistakes.
Reagan should get major points for winning the cold war, though Trump does deserve credit for extracting us from the Bush wars.
Six percent of Republicans name GW Bush and three percent name his old man. I’m surprised that either of these proto-liberals got that high. The votes of Larry Hogan, Mitt Romney and half the Republicans in the US Senate must have accounted for most of the Bush support.
Yeah. Reagan was good with foreign affairs but a huge failure on domestic issues.
Sorry to disagree; after 1982, Reagan brought the US out of the inflation-soaked 70s, the disaster of Desert One, rising crime and the other wonderful accomplishments of Joe Biden’s political godfather, one Jimmy Carter. For the most part, the Reagan years were wonderful with the exception of his pick for Vice President . . .
Reagan saved us from four more years of Carter, and four years of Mondale.
Trump saved us from 4-8 years of Hilary.
Six percent of Republicans name GW Bush and three percent name his old man. I’m surprised that either of these proto-liberals got that high. The votes of Larry Hogan, Mitt Romney and half the Republicans in the US Senate must have accounted for most of the Bush support.
Trump was out of office one week and the border was wide open. None of Trump’s “accomplishments”, which were all executive orders, remain. That so called Ryan/McConnell/CoC tax cut is there, big whup! How about the seditionist gang of traitors that Trump installed throughout his intelligence community? You know the enablers and fixers of the coups that led to Biden and the end of representative government in the USA? Reagan would have done his best to have those bastards, Trump cabinet picks, rightly shot. Trump, stupidly, was completely taken by Fauci, Inc. for over a year. Reagan had balls enough to do the right thing and deal with the grief and suffering to get great things accomplished. Look at the political capital Reagan had and expended to take Volker’s medicine to stop inflation. That was a real tax cut Reagan had. The millions of good conservative Americans living in blue states benefitted from Reagan’s tax cut. Those poor people were absolutely hammered by Trump’s tax legislation. How about the arms race with the Soviets? Reagan destroyed the Warsaw Pact permanently. Trump was afraid to contradict that twit Fauci in an election year. Trump, stupidly, destroyed the economy while simultaneously borrowing an immediately pi$$ing $5T down Fauci’s Covid drain. In eight Reagan years the debt increased $1.2T. Superior to Reagan, my big toe!
It’s hard to tell with Trump. Were his policy failures due to disinterest in governing and bad staff picks? Or was his inability to advance his agenda because of political weakness? He was clearly isolated and without the support of the elected members of his own party.
How different history would have been had the GOP thrown in with Trump in 2017 instead of colluding with Marxist Democrats to destroy him and the MAGA agenda.
Before Trump came to Washington his attitude towards democrats and republicans alike was the same, F’em both. He had been paying both of them off for fifty years to do business. He knew what they were. He came to Washington and was immediately co-opted by DC republicans. Trump allowed them pick his cabinet and to advise him on the coups and impeachments and Covid. On this forum you saw it. No, Trump can’t fire this guy, no, he can’t hire him, no he can’t override Fauci or Barr, no, he can’t stop our cities from burning all last summer, etc. or he’ll get another unit thrown on the impeachment/coup assembly line. Trump lost control of his administration to the swamp operatives of the DC GOP.
Obama and Slick Willie were just a couple of cheap, two-bit pimps.
Trump has exposed the swamp and led a revolution against rinos and brought with him the Hispanics, some of the black population and many former Democrats. He has exposed the swamp in all branches of govt. and set the Republicans on a completely different trajectory. The full impact of which will not be felt for many years.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.